Friday, January 8, 2016

Housing Containers

Housing Containers

A meeting will be held in Kure Beach Wednesday night to discuss the possibility of allowing a popular housing trend on the island. Container housing is a new way for some residents to build small, but live large. Carolina Beach already allows container The industrial containers are transforming into odd and innovative homes, offices, schools, hydroponic farms and a variety of businesses. Providence has its own example: An 11,000-square-foot, three-story office building along Route 10 constructed from 32 Tiny homes have been the talk of the town for 2015, but 2016 might bring a new housing trend: homes made from shipping containers. The new idea has been a winner overseas, with cargo containers serving as apartments in the Netherlands and as designer homes Shipping containers modified with windows, decks and trendy decor have served as thrifty and hip homes in urban areas around the country. But it would be new to Covington. "We have the spaceship, and now a shipping container " said City Manager Larry Here's a fascinating glimpse inside the shipping container homes set to be used as temporary accommodation for homeless people. A housing trust in Brighton wants to use the 36 adapted containers as a stop-gap for people without a permanent home. Shipping containers are wonderful things- for shipping. They are part of an elaborate and extensive infrastructure for moving goods cheaply and efficiently that has revolutionized world trade. They are also all the rage among designers and architects who .

Cheap and abundant, steel shipping containers long in vogue elsewhere as a new style of housing and building have come to Kentucky. The (Louisville, Ky.) Courier-Journal Kyle Gilman, left, with Core Design polishes the welding on a doorway of a kitchen as Two containers will be turned into one-bedroom home over the next three months The red steel shipping container was once used to transport toothbrushes and bras. By May, it and another container will be transformed into a one bedroom, one-bathroom, 640 Amsterdam student Rose Mandungu stands in front of a colorful apartment complex constructed of a rather unusual material—discarded shipping containers. The crowded Dutch city has been meeting a pressing need for student and other low-income housing by The Faith Action for Community Equity (FACE) has turned a shipping container into a home for a family of five. The shipping container is located in Honolulu, Hawaii and cost about $11,000 to construct. The home was built out of a standard sized 20-foot-by .